TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Sunday released three persons who were detained on Saturday during a scuffle outside the National Movement’s party conference and gave them a 100 lari (USD 60) fine.
Davit Chantladze, Irakli Chubabria and Pridon Merebashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–Davit Bakradze, leader of the parliamentary opposition, has been announced as the National Movement’s official candidate for the upcoming presidential election.
UNM’s sixth and final primary election was held on Saturday in Tbilisi. The final
Tbilisi, DFWatch – The interagency commission for free and fair election expresses concern about incidents, which took place this Saturday and Sunday during United National Movement’s primary election conferences in Batumi and Zugdidi, Western Georgia, where people threw
Tbilisi, DFWatch—The first remark about Bidzina Ivanishvili stepping down as prime minister came from the Georgian Dream coalition’s presidential candidate who says that ‘the PM plans to leave his post, but not politics.’
Giorgi Margvelashvili, Ivanishvili’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–Less than three months before the presidential election, the Georgian Dream coalition is working on improving the election legislation, and has introduced five sets of amendments.
According to the draft of the amendments, voters who were taken off
TBILISI, DFWatch–There has so far not been been observed any violations in the election campaign for the presidential election on October 27.
International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED), a non-governmental organization which specializes in election
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Saakashvili’s National Movement had a tough weekend with both party conferences interrupted by demonstrators.
After being greeted by an angry hoe-wielding crowd in Zugdidi Saturday, the UNM gathered in Batumi Sunday, only to see protesters
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement’s fourth primary on Saturday took place against the backdrop of violent clashes with an angry hoe-wielding crowd who threw stones and bottles.
For the fourth time, the UNM’s primary was won by former Speaker of Parliament
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new amendment to the election code will require top officials to resign two days after they are registered as candidates in the presidential election.
The new regulations will apply to the prime minister, ministers of autonomous republics
TBILISI, DFWatch–As the presidential election in October is drawing nearer, Georgians are discussing candidates and who their next president might be.
The Georgian Dream coalition has already decided on Education Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili as their candidate,